DC public schools is scheduled to close 20 schools that are “underperforming or under enrolled” next year, according to ABC7. Below is a list of schools to be shut down: Francis-Stevens Education Campus Garrison Elementary SChool MacFarland Middle School Sharpe Health School Mamie D. Lee School C.H.O.I.C.E. Academy Middle/High School Marshall Elementary School Spingarn High […]

A Brooklyn high school is catching flack for its treatment of students after it barred students from using all but one of the school’s restrooms. Administrators at Brooklyn’s Science Skills Center High School said they locked all but one of the school’s bathrooms to punish kids for misbehaving. See also: Brooklyn ‘Before I Die…’ Chalkboard Outside […]

VIA WASHINGTON POST: As the weeks wore on this summer, Prince George’s County school administrators could see they were running out of time to avert a crisis over class schedules for the county’s 41,000 high school students. But they had no backup system and didn’t tell parents or students of the looming disaster until the […]

VIA WASHINGTON POST: More than 3,400 Prince George’s County high school students remained without class schedules at noon Wednesday as top school officials acknowledged rising parent fury over logistical problems that have plagued the first week of the academic year. “We’re working to resolve it,” Superintendent William R. Hite Jr. said at an afternoon news […]

VIA MYFOXDC: PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, Md. – The first day of class for hundreds and possibly thousands of public high school students throughout Prince George’s County was anything but smooth Monday. A computer scheduling snafu left many students with no class schedule, others with partial schedules and some with two classes at the same time. […]